90-year-old Toronto man uses his photography to inspire others

When you walk into Jack Gilbert’s home, you feel like you’re walking into an art gallery.

“I fell in love with photography, perhaps, 85 years ago,” Gilbert said. “The reason for that is my dad was a photographer. He came to Canada in 1922, opened up a photography studio and that studio still continues to this day under my brother, Al Gilbert, who’s 95. I happen to be 90.”

“In 2003, that’s the first show I had of my work, and it was extraordinary,” Gilbert said. “I sold about 68 pieces and it was written up in an art magazine at the time that ‘Jack Gilbert stunned the art world’ – and it stunned me.”

Gilbert’s work has been displayed on the walls of many Toronto health institutions and galleries.

“I’m 90 and I can’t wait to wake up and to get back into the office and then back into my photography,” Gilbert said.